One box of Rice-a-ronni

Last night for evening meal (supper, dinner, what have you) I was in charge of making sides to go along with the lovely piece of salmon we were having. A few weeks back we took part in a sale of buy a lot get something for free (the rice-a-roni was the buy a lot part) so I decided I was going to make that--but we only had one box of the "flavor" I figured would pair well with our fish. I did not know what I was going to do. Would there be enough for our family of 4--2 adults and 2 children?

I grew up in and still belong to (plus gained with marriage) families that make way too much food--would hate to have anyone go hungry. There is always so much of everything. Good things too (wouldn't it be wonderful to have family that can not cook and you never wanted to eat their bounty) Some may call it hospitality, I call it a disorder (isn't everything some time of disorder nowadays?) This disorder is bad--it cause puffiness to all who succumb to the defeating questions or demands of "Did you get enough to eat" or "Don't be afraid to take seconds, I made plenty" I am normally rendered powerless to these and other familiar phrases. This disorder causes delusions of mass quantity--it causes the maker of foods to think they are feeding armies verses a mere catholic family.

So would one box of Rice-A-Ronni be enough. It was--and there were left over (lots of them) of all things. Left-overs from one single box of the stuff. There was a time in our food obsessed/oblivious/addicted past that the hubs and I would have polished off the whole box, just the two of us along with the amount of salmon that the whole family feasted on (and there was a bit left of that as well).

One small step for man, one giant accomplishment for me. Or a realization more so. I've been stuck in a silly old rut and have been trying to get myself out of it--trying to get back to counting points and measuring food amount exactly (all which do work, but really how livable are those techniques when we are talking forever). I have decided to take the highroad or the road less traveled. I am going to go with sensibility. Eat sensibly, move sensibly and lose sensibly (lost 0.8 this week). What a concept--think I could make millions if I market it right?